The Unexpected
#196
(March 1980)
DC,
1968 Series
- Volume
- 25
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-12-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893070503
- Editing
- Jack C. Harris (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #175.
The Devil to Pay!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD [overlapping])
- Inks
- Luis Dominguez (signed as LD [overlapping])
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino ?
- Job Number
- C-243
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Cover contains small logos for The Witching Hour! and The House of Secrets.
The Fear of Number 13
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Abe Ocampo
- Inks
- Abe Ocampo
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-5715
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #39 (May 1980) -
in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #2 (4ème trimestre 1981)
-
Indexer Notes
The Unexpected
Stranger, Beware!
comic story / 2.5 pages
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff (credited as Bill Dennehy)
- Pencils
- Jerry Grandenetti
- Inks
- Jerry Grandenetti
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn
- Job Number
- J-5689
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #40 ([August 1980])
- in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #2 (4ème trimestre 1981)
-
Indexer Notes
The Unexpected
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Jack C. Harris (as JCH)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-418
Indexer Notes
Letters from Brian Hayes and Pam Miller.
[no title indexed]
The Three Witches / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Pencils
- E. R. Cruz
- Inks
- E. R. Cruz
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- E. R. Cruz
- Job Number
- J-5778
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come and get it-- Fresh and fragrant doughnuts!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mordred; Mildred; Cynthia
Indexer Notes
The Witching Hour
Never Trust a Devil-Doll
The Three Witches / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- George Kashdan
- Pencils
- Ernie Patricio (as Ernesto Patricio)
- Inks
- Ernie Patricio (as Ernesto Patricio)
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-5806
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mildred (host)
- Reprints
- in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #3 (février 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
The Witching Hour
[no title indexed]
Abel / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Jack C. Harris
- Pencils
- Romeo Tanghal (signed)
- Inks
- Romeo Tanghal (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- J-6339
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- H-hi readers! A-and welcome to the House of Secrets' d-dungeon!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Abel
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Introductory page to the House of Secrets story.
The Devil to Pay
Abel / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Mike W. Barr
- Pencils
- Vic Catan (credited as Vicatanjr)
- Inks
- Vic Catan (credited as Vicatanjr)
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-5547
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Abel (host)
- Reprints
- in Le Manoir des Fantômes (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #3 (février 1982)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Devil to Pay!
-
1.
The Fear of Number 13
-
2.
Stranger, Beware!
-
3.
Batman and Professor Plutonium
Batman; Hostess Twinkies -
4.
[no title indexed]
Unexpected Mail -
5.
["Come and get it-- Fresh and fragrant doughnuts!"]
The Three Witches -
6.
Never Trust a Devil-Doll
The Three Witches -
7.
["H-hi readers! A-and welcome to the House of Secrets' d-dungeon!"]
Abel -
8.
The Devil to Pay
Abel -
9.
DC Puzzle
-
10.
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man
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